Wingnut

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Wingnut may refer to:

  • Wingnut (military slang): Members of the United States Air Force
  • Wingnut (plant) (Pterocarya), a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
  • A wingnut or wing nut, a nut (hardware), with a pair of wings for increasing torque
  • Wingnut (politics), a mildly derogatory term for a person who holds strongly right-wing political beliefs.
  • Wingnut ear, a derogatory term for, or a person with, ears that stick out
  • Wingnut (haircut), New Zealand slang for someone who had the "short-back and sides" haircut style of the 1940s and 50s
  • WingNut Films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson's film production company
  • Wingnut Interactive, a video game developer also lead by Peter Jackson
  • Wingnut (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
  • Wingnut, a person with a hobby-level of interest in the White House and its architecture, and/or the Presidency of the United States
  • Wingnut, a term to describe a fan of the NBC television drama series The West Wing
  • Wingnuts (baseball), Wichita, Kansas new baseball team
  • Wingnut, a term to describe a fan of the Detroit Red Wings
  • Wingnut (Care Bears): A character in the Care Bears franchise introduced in the movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! and persisted into the new TV series Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot
  • Wingnut (music), Phoenix, Arizona-based free jazz/deconstruction/noise band formed in March 2007